Barack Obama saved nickel job!
As it turns out, Barack Obama directly gave back to me and nickel for voting for him. About $8 million of the stimulus money that California got is going to his school district, allowing them to limit the number of people they're laying off to only 300, instead of like 1200. nickel is too valuable (teaching two classes, one of which they'd have to hire a replacement for if they wanted to keep offering it, anyway) to get rid of on a whim, so he's not going to be one of the unlucky 300. This is a certainty, as the people who were going to get pink slipped already have been.
Mind you, there's no promise that he would have been one of the 1200, but since he doesn't teach any core subjects, there would have been a chance.
... So to anyone who decides to whine about Obama and/or the stimulus package, I say go to hell. I am, at heart, a self-interested person, and Obama's stimulus served the hell out of my self-interest. This is one job that I can pretty definitively say that he saved.
In other news, I wrote all day. Progress is being made, slowly. This set of revisions is getting along -- I've gotten to where Nick meets the Black Prince. If nothing else comes up to eat me, I might be done by the end of March. Then there will be just one more runthrough to clean up some references to Lord Luke's eyes (I discovered that they're actually blue, not black) and a few places where I need to add accents to some of the satyr words.
Mind you, there's no promise that he would have been one of the 1200, but since he doesn't teach any core subjects, there would have been a chance.
... So to anyone who decides to whine about Obama and/or the stimulus package, I say go to hell. I am, at heart, a self-interested person, and Obama's stimulus served the hell out of my self-interest. This is one job that I can pretty definitively say that he saved.
In other news, I wrote all day. Progress is being made, slowly. This set of revisions is getting along -- I've gotten to where Nick meets the Black Prince. If nothing else comes up to eat me, I might be done by the end of March. Then there will be just one more runthrough to clean up some references to Lord Luke's eyes (I discovered that they're actually blue, not black) and a few places where I need to add accents to some of the satyr words.